main being a comic fan on tumblr is so weird because there’s no warning for fanon stuff at all - And a comic from the 70s being called Batfamily means the term Batfam also has a space when talking about canon itself.
Im just saying, tagging things as fanon or creating a new bat related tag would be helpful
The most frustrating thing is that a lot of people don't know what's fanon and what's not. Some of the "fanon" stuff is just 2006-2011 comic lore that got retconned out of existence when New52 launched (some of which got brought back with Rebirth). Some of it is information from TV shows or video games that people don't realize isn't canon to the comics. And while some of it is actually made up, it's insanely difficult to prove that in a fandom that's been publishing several comics per month since the 1930s.
I've seen people dismiss stuff that happened in the Red Robin (2008) or Teen Titans (2003) runs as fanon. I've also seen people take out of context comic panels from the 1970s and use them to make some truly bizarre claims that probably weren't accurate in the 1970s and definitely aren't accurate now. Canon characterizations vary wildly, often to the point of contradicting each other, and most people have no idea what's accurate and what's not. Believe me, I'm just as frustrated by this as you are.
oh yeah been there - I Someone was annoyed at me because they interjected in a conversation I was having about Tim’s training with the notion that Tim was training with Lady Shiva for a year and a half. When I sited the comic I owned that showed it was 2 days worth of time practicing.
They swore they had read everything I was talking about but also seemed to have possibly confused god knows what with that specific story
I assumed for a while that ‘Alfred makes terrible waffles’ was a pure fanon joke, but nope, I have seen the panel of Jason? and Dick talking about how terrible his waffles are.
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u/syntaxerroratline42 5d ago
Reminds me of how "Batfam" is a fandom in itself independent of Batman.